Dorothea was the daughter of architect Captain Rudolph Benz who emigrated from Germany to America when he was a young man, and his wife Johanna (Schwemberger) Benz, whose parents emigrated from Austria around 1850. Dorathea had two brothers, Leonhardt and Louis, both of whom were engineers/architects like their father. Dorathea married Frank Dunlap and they lived for a period with her widowed mother Johanna in a large house in Mobile. Rudolph Benz Dunlap was her son. Dorathea was extremely proud of her father who was the leading architect in Mobile between 1880-1900. She wrote a short paper about his accomplishments just three months before she died in 1953. She described her father's aristocratic background (he was born in an old feudal castle with draw bridge owned by his father and was a proficient duelist during his student days), together with his extensive accomplishments as an architect. She finishes her 3 page paper with the sentence: "These, I think, are the important facts of his life; if all of the interesting events were written it would make a book."
Dorothea was the daughter of architect Captain Rudolph Benz who emigrated from Germany to America when he was a young man, and his wife Johanna (Schwemberger) Benz, whose parents emigrated from Austria around 1850. Dorathea had two brothers, Leonhardt and Louis, both of whom were engineers/architects like their father. Dorathea married Frank Dunlap and they lived for a period with her widowed mother Johanna in a large house in Mobile. Rudolph Benz Dunlap was her son. Dorathea was extremely proud of her father who was the leading architect in Mobile between 1880-1900. She wrote a short paper about his accomplishments just three months before she died in 1953. She described her father's aristocratic background (he was born in an old feudal castle with draw bridge owned by his father and was a proficient duelist during his student days), together with his extensive accomplishments as an architect. She finishes her 3 page paper with the sentence: "These, I think, are the important facts of his life; if all of the interesting events were written it would make a book."
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
